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[Diver]

Time for a well earned soak in the bath now

Later

[NickFitz]

DS23 4,924
TheFaQQer 3,671
zeitghost 3,498
Diver 2,827
cailin maith 2,245
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Hi Nick Hi BI

Hi Diver

[BrowneIssue]

A previous manager used to commute to work in the Northern home counties back home to London on the M1.

One morning he said (paraphrased since it was 20 years ago):

"Last night I got this 'uncomfortable' feeling in the rush hour traffic. No idea what it was. We were all moving as we always do. Then suddenly I got this urge to get out of the way so I pulled onto the hard shoulder. As I did so a pile-up formed a few cars in front of me and continued on past the cars behind me.

"If I hadn't moved over, I would have been in the middle of that."

Go figure.

Personally, I just put it down to him having about 15 years driving experience at the time and human brains being very good at pattern matching - that traffic did not match the 'normal' patterns and so caused distress.

[BrowneIssue]

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Hi Nick Hi BI

Hello, Diver!

I'm close to 1500 then!

[NickFitz]

It's funny how a few million years of evolution dodging sabre-tooth tigers and that-lot-from-the-other-side-of-the-valley has given us the ability to 'sense' being unsafe.

It's even funnier how we are taught to disregard or over-rule it.

Well done for listening to your own chimpy senses - if only most humans could be so clever.

I also found it intriguing to reflect that, as I was walking along with the youths right next to me - and nobody else around on that side of the road - I had all these coppers secretly watching me, all tensed up for an armed operation, and willing me to get out of the bloody way so they could swoop in. It appeared to work...

[BrowneIssue]

Time for a well earned soak in the bath now

Later

Eh? Isn't that your job?

Oh well.

Hi! Bye!

[NickFitz]

Time for a well earned soak in the bath now

Eh? Isn't that your job?

Oh well.

[BrowneIssue]

I also found it intriguing to reflect that, as I was walking along with the youths right next to me - and nobody else around on that side of the road - I had all these coppers secretly watching me, all tensed up for an armed operation, and willing me to get out of the bloody way so they could swoop in. It appeared to work...

It's as well you gave that thought. Mine had been "If NickFitz hadn't have got out of the way, they'd have had him too."

[BrowneIssue]

... with Heckler & Koch sub-machine guns being pointed at them by a group of armed police officers shouting "Armed Police! Stay on the ground! Put your hands where I can see them!"

I am fairly sure, that had it been ME on the other side of the road watching all this, I would have needed to change my underpants.

[NickFitz]

I am fairly sure, that had it been ME on the other side of the road watching all this, I would have needed to change my underpants.

Nah, it was more like watching a realistic version of a scene from The Bill. It was, to use the vernacular, well cool